simon strong still do a lot of journalists held by syrian rebels with no news of a date as a deadline for the execution. and they do dig to britain was accused of resorting to dirty policies to drill for gas as it approves and take me to criticize but it's slowing the environment. and washington looking to clinch a deal that would let more u.s. troops and hardware into asia as china's new leader advises his military to prepare for struggle. twenty four hours a day seven days a week of this is our team the fate of

a ukrainian journalist held by syrian rebels remains unknown after a ransom deadline from a group threatening to execute her passed on heart of caution of all was kidnapped by insurgents said to be from the free syrian army who she repeatedly accused of on to brutality against civilians policia takes up the story. well the deadline has passed with no word as to whether or not she is dead or alive she was reportedly kidnapped by the free syrian army and held for ransom of fifty million u.s. dollars she was taken hostage nearly two months ago and since then has appeared to stick videos in the first she appeals to the ukrainian government to pay the ransom money and state her free in a second which many believe was made under jew is she admits to being a spy but the point needs to be made that just about everyone believes the that this video was made under extreme pressure and dulce the objectiveness of what she was saying now reporters without borders amnesty international and a number of other nongovernmental organizations have called on the free syrian army

as well as the syrian national coalition they've demanded that they immediately secure her release saying that this is the first taste of the nearly widely recognized government at the same time the same rebels who are allegedly holding who have posted a video in which they have said that no russian no ukrainian and no rain in will leave syria alive so there is deep concern as to her fate now recently there has been a wave of rebel executions in one at least ten bound prisoners are shot at point blank range by the rebels and this was recorded and posted at the same time just a few days ago and it was a young child who was forced by the rebels to behave. i'm armed as well as bound prisoner so some of the things a lot of concern over her photo particularly the fact that nothing's been heard

from who is very worrying. the hope now is that the rebels might listen to calls for the journalists release and spare her but you bell that monsieur editor of news junkie opposed believes there are a number of barriers to that happening. the your position all we know you know me. but. it's going to be very. good at only saying you surely in the end of the draw overall. by washington d.c. the choice organisation. with al qaida in iraq need a washington. know exactly. what's going on dr ali mohamed to from the syria tribe in online magazine says complacency in present the rebels to secure the ukrainian jenna's release is sending all the wrong

signals. to the west unless it's our western citizens or an american citizen in particular involved here to. ask the local proxies in the visual to put some pressure to release there are hostages unfortunately the worst of the country is. very local forces in very sure have been serving there were a massacre for the other variable of the river they were they were still enjoying. their support for from the information of every across. the future of the middle east and what role the international community has to play is the main theme of the latest edition of cross talk the question of who bears responsibility for the strive gripping the region it's been debated later this hour. by one blame the united states for the sectarian divisions that exist in the middle east for hundreds of years and they were exacerbated by the iranian revolution. a theocracy

in iran that has tried to shape the region according to its own interests and a lot of the sunni states resigned and of course the united states is allied with a lot of them including saudi arabia. the chiefs ability was supporting. the saudi arabia which is the main troublemaker in the region which was caused. to become such. a haven for extremists. this is also the case in syria were because of so the funding and precisely because of so do support you have all of these judges pouring into syria. the u.k. government has given the green light to a controversial guest drilling take me known as fracking it's heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impact including causing massive water pollution

i just want a boy has more. drill is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the quantum virtual method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the divisive technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place cause minor earthquake i've never felt like it was terrifying i'll be honest with our local and he's doing very little he said i don't know a lot about it. well he should know all about it you're going to turn this into a book on trying to lie shareholders pockets this is not going to benefit us and it will be a legacy of toxic legacy for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capitals outspoken mayor calls shell gas on six of the nation's prayers and the reserves in lancashire america but for residents here in this trying call corner of

england it's a blight on their otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being in lancashire but people aren't aware that there's reserves all the way down i think at the moment it's all about gasp and how much better off will be but at what cost the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond lancashire shale gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing techniques is a high risk activity which has many benefits for foreign investors but very little benefit for the people of britain fracking is a dirty energy it. pollutes groundwater. it is a short term and not very intelligent solution to energy problems they're going to

get money out of the ground program to. bring in corrupt governments would do anything for money i think it's just resource money they can just get their money so this is not really for the country's best interest to do well in brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the budding shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not subdivision and gas and haven't been for a very. we were but in actual fact we import about harmful gas now we see that in the us gas prices are a quarter of what they were untrue fact this true output issue to prove print is much less so there are many reasons why she'll go if it can. be attractive in terms of security of supply and also probably in terms of profitability and that's what's

drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow of fracking facilities know that the government is playing with fire. our tea. london has managed to keep the economic decision making power in the e.u. after the blocks leaders agreed the european central bank should become the main supervisor for banks in the euro zone britain which sticks to its own currency had feared moving to a banking union that could make it financially paulus stephen walt from the u.k. independence party says the deal one bring any benefits to his country there is a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that no longer going to be at the central table of europe in joining the late night events in the flash cars and hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz

of being but there are those like me actually politics that believe that being outside of of this particular about could actually influence the great great britain's influence when actually rise and we'll be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations. it's all from the christmas spirit in spain there's thousands of people have taken to the streets of madrid protesting against austerity demonstrators last hour that the government cuts to the education system sector saying this already drastically damages the quality of teaching spanish authorities are desperately trying to avoid the economic dish and the bailouts later of other nations like greece portugal and ireland the country is nearly one hundred fifty billion euros in a day. does the head small revelation suffer isn't a case which has been poisoning ties between russia and the us from an intelligence

that they did in london six years ago turns out that they have aaa. and the iran is said to get nuclear talks back on track say the un so what starts later this visit was productive they're still not allowing you to inspect the controversial parts of the test site for a few minutes. the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft and drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only had one solution offer

a given situation go home lock your doors and load and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america's always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chiefs honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his friends at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can't expect that a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion. sure is that so much of a given to give each musician the right mind to define toast divided against itself the sunni shia conflict rages across the arab middle east and beyond is this

sectarian division being used. to least be told language. close programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks books of the ip interviews intriguing stories for you to. see then try. to find out more visit arabic don't all teeth don't call. he is under siege for. destruction without mercy. what could have been just ruins. saved by a great sacrifice and a wondrous story by human jessops. a remarkable reminder of courage and selflessness. truth beauty is of more people.

playing golf the russian side on. the took. her. you're watching our live from moscow the u.s. looks set to bases military presence in southeast asia with washington reportedly on the brink of a deal to take more troops and ships are through the philippines territorial tensions in the area also marrying and see the move as an attempt to undermine

china's influence there and some say it's all a dangerously high stakes game and merica does like to miss around with china and trying to stand up by taking sides in this dispute which between china and its neighbors it's really not because it cares one way or the other for the philippines although mrs clinton has called the stuff trying to see the west philippine sea that's a very strategic part of the walt a lot of shipping costs through that area and. when there are so many players involved you cannot control them all and if one goes off then really it would be very hard to control the situation bring it under control. and coming up later this hour the states of stability in. this point are freezing temperatures in moscow or drop or go sensors in the air the president of brazil is in town said to meet with the russian leader for more than me going to start off later this hour. the

international scandal sparked by the former russian intelligence officer. is gaining momentum a british green was review has real that litvinenko was on the payroll of both the u.k. and spanish secret services when he was poisoned six years ago the court in london also appears to be implicated in the russian state and his murder more on this from artie's laura smith this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world either there is there are wider implications to this and of course it has been the major stumbling block in the u.k. russia relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interesting

really under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting the u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing evidence on the other side of course. do you avoid a police his main suspect in poisoning he recently passed a lie detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically asked whether he has had any involvement in libya is that he said no a lie detector test was passed by him also. you know because only father told it on t.v. that he didn't suspect the kremlin to go for it having any involvement in his son's murder this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world now it's wrong

to add bilton loss of chinese man could lead to all of the predicted my own apocalypse with fantasy books to also wyvil odds get the full story on the website . and also their sponsors are from d.c. and all of that of building collapse in southern russia which killed at spawn people and injured. the eye has concluded its mission to turn around with good progress according to iran's envoy to the nuclear watchdog however the two sides failed to agree of

inspection of a military base in parchin which is suspected of nuclear weapons related activity there will be more negotiations engine re the us meanwhile announcing essentially is against iran blacklisting twelve companies and individuals associated with terrans into energy program but such pressure only delays any significant results of the talks says chris bambery from the international socialist group. you know the really good relations are because i don't hate on the people who are going to the people not the way some of the demands are suppressed by washington which is what continually happened here we continue military build up on the sanctions which are going on against iran are not helping the situation i think one of the. leading functions as a concession if you i go down the road for the a really interesting responded the way forward from do you know continue to up the ante by increasing french and an increase in the motor brush of many iranians know

any equine don't they would be some sort of natural disagree although when you don't agree in your marina nuku nuku program the national pride. israel is using iran as a convenient bogeyman to justify its own nuclear weapons program according to iran's former top diplomat and an interview with our team is coming up in full at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview. even today israel is they are always using your own issue right lawrence don't lead to war justifying the nuclear bomb. saying iran is existential threat for easily but the fact is israel is that. produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution the case of iran's nuclear where the shah of iran was the ally of israel the same is true he's israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq right here because it was mastered produced before it

would lucian now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so argument. amid growing global financial uncertainty field by europe's debt troubles the leaders of two of the world's key fast growing economies are meeting in moscow on friday brazilian president dilma rousseff is on a visit to the russian capital more on the dogs for martys yeah. well brazil and russia may be on the opposite sides of the planet but the two have more in common than in they seem vast natural resources how rapid economic growth will neither brazil russia were hit as hard by the economic crisis as the united states where the economy's been unstable we've seen the way offshore the european union where there is the debt crisis the eurozone crisis various austerity measures and so on

russia and brazil are also members of the alliance of giants of brics which also includes china india and south africa brazil is also russia's largest trade partner in south america currently the trade turnover stands at around six and a half billion u.s. dollars it's not that much compared to say russia as the european partners but the two want to see this figure exceed ten billion two years there's great potential for that there's already working projects in the spheres of energy of the asian car manufacturing and so on before coming to moscow from brazil madame. president reminded that she's portable gary and for her this trip is sort of a return to her slavic roots it's also her birthday today so there are definitely great expectations from this trip and from this meeting and of course we'll report about it as soon as it happens here in moscow a leader on friday to some other international news in brief now susan rice has

withdrawn her name from contention for the post of u.s. secretary of state she's been under fire from republicans after her national comments on the deadly raid on the american consulate in benghazi she claimed it had not been a terror attack announcement makes senator john kerry the front runner to replace hillary clinton when she steps down next year. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the streets and squares of north korea as they rallied to celebrate was a successful rocket launch it was widely condemned around the world including by the u.n. with washington and its european allies demanding more sanctions for pyongyang north korea claim the rockets put a weather satellite into space amid accusations it was a disguised missile test. the british government will pay over two million pounds as compensation to the family of a prominent libyan dissident who claimed bridges m i six played a key role in his kidnap in hong kong and forcible transfer to tripoli where he was

later tortured by the gadhafi regime in twenty ten he also paid millions to a number of guantanamo bay inmates to avoid a potentially embarrassing investigation after they accuse london of a cozy relationship with autocratic regimes. next the latest edition of peter novell's crosstalk debates the few saw the middle east and if. you mean isn't this true even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms to do lenience the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like

a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls and by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. through our special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says he wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed the horse was revived as an instrument that was it of so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream

he said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called croy. to fly is one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour puled they say for you or peons it's difficult to pick up and saying so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it chill you cheer it up. chen oh you stand out and that was sure to say can come true and was you think gang are ok. but now it

is the and moody part of the song and not the actual scrooge singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most says to heart and mind that you come from two hundred years ago and feel so happy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. you.

alone welcome to crossfire computer all about a house divided against itself the sunni shia conflict rages across the arab middle east and beyond is this sectarian division being used to topple regimes and redraw the map of the region and is the sunni shia conflict politicized by outside powers . cross-talk the sunni shia divide i'm joined by joshua landis a norman he is director of the center for middle east studies and associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma in dubai we have moved to jabber he is an expert with the center for middle east studies and public relations and in washington we cross to our resident nader he is a senior international policy analyst at the rand corporation right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want josh if i can go to you but the security and difference here between the sunni and the shia

have been around as long as islam itself virtually but how is it different in the arab spring and what events being played out in the region and we can't forget about iran. well it's become very politicized ever since the iranian revolution nine hundred seventy nine america was boots that was kicked out of iran and went to saudi arabia to build up its major center of power and to keep its hands on gulf oil saudi arabia has become the armored base of the united states and increasingly the u.s. has has sided with the sunnis now that the other big factor was going into iraq when the united states actually sided with the shiites thinking that they would be more arab than shiite but today by putting the shiites in the top and in iraq iraq has moved on the side of iran creating the shiite crescent iran iraq the syrian government under side which is shaky and hizbullah in lebanon and that.